I had a similar experience after switching to Fedora Silverblue (but any of the immutable Linuxes will probably do - and over time, I'm sure most will be like that). Had set aside a bunch of time to do a major version update, everything fully backed up, and then it was done in a couple of minutes. Literally no different from any other update.
I've done more than a handful of major version updates since then, and almost don't bother to backup any more.
I'm a relative newbie with Nix, but I recently installed a Gnome extension through Home Manager, and then removed it again. It left some native functionality unusable because the install flipped a pref and the dev had forgotten to revert that on uninstall. They fixed it quickly and it was nice and all, but it's still somewhat unpredictable to me when I will run into such cases.
Obviously I am putting words in the author's mouth here, so take with a grain of salt, but I think the reasoning is something like: such LLM-generated content disproportionately negatively affects women, and the fact that this got pushed through shows that they didn't take those consequences into account, e.g. by not testing what it would look like in situations like these.
> Ahead of the International Women's Day, a UNESCO study revealed worrying tendencies in Large Language models (LLM) to produce gender bias, as well as homophobia and racial stereotyping. Women were described as working in domestic roles far more often than men ¬– four times as often by one model – and were frequently associated with words like “home”, “family” and “children”, while male names were linked to “business”, “executive”, “salary”, and “career”.
> Our analysis proves that bias in LLMs is not an unintended flaw but a systematic result of their rational processing, which tends to preserve and amplify existing societal biases encoded in training data. Drawing on existentialist theory, we argue that LLM-generated bias reflects entrenched societal structures and highlights the limitations of purely technical debiasing methods.
> We find that the portrayals generated
by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 contain higher rates
of racial stereotypes than human-written por-
trayals using the same prompts. The words
distinguishing personas of marked (non-white,
non-male) groups reflect patterns of othering
and exoticizing these demographics. An inter-
sectional lens further reveals tropes that domi-
nate portrayals of marginalized groups, such as
tropicalism and the hypersexualization of mi-
noritized women. These representational harms
have concerning implications for downstream
applications like story generation.
The question is whether these LLM summaries disproportionately "impact" women, not whether LLMs describe women as more often working in domestic roles.
Unfortunately I can't provide that, since I'm merely trying to come up with the reasoning of the author. If they have sources, though, that could lead to this reasoning.
I think in UI design it usually is intended to refer to the main thing you want/expect a user to do in any given situation, i.e. having multiple CTAs is a bit of an oxymoron while having multiple buttons is not.
I feel like as soon as a particular type of student learns that this is used, they'll have an excellent way to get that test that they didn't study for postponed, and even have plausible deniability that they didn't intend to lock the school down. At least for the first one or two times, after that it's back to triggering the fire alarm.
That happened at my mom's school (back in the 1960s) until the school put all the kids on a bus and brought them to the local armory gym and made all student sit quietly (no talking) on the floor until the end of the school day. Once the bomb threat wasn't a way to get out of school on a nice day there was never another one.
I'm not sure how to apply that to this situation, but it is one every school should think about when students try things.
> Once the bomb threat wasn't a way to get out of school on a nice day there was never another one.
If I think of my school time, I would believe even the fact that a bomb threat would be an annoyance to teachers would a be sufficient reason (of course, in the schools of the country where I live there were other methods than bomb threats to be an annoyance to teachers).
As I understand it, it's a US thing. In areas with snow the local military branch had a drill hall as part of the armory, to carry out drills in winter. These were large open interior spaces.
Not making kids go to school is child abuse. Sure they won't like it - learning new things is hard. However society cannot function without well educated adults. (maybe in the future some post scarcity society will emerge, but we are not there and there is high risk it won't come before they become adults)
The obvious unintended consequence of this is that then nobody learns how to read (because who wants to go to school?) and then our economy crumbles and everyone is stupid and then everyone dies.
Or maybe some kids do go to school, so they become the global elite while the other 98% are illiterate and they flee the country because obviously and so the economy still crumbles and everyone dies.
See, these are the things we need to be thinking about.
That's also why a number of cities here have started banning the use of newly-purchased non-electric commercial vehicles. The feasibility-impact ratio makes it an easy first step.
I guess that also means the first stable release of Cosmic - congrats to the team! Honestly I expected it to be delayed more, so good on them for pulling that off. Hopefully it's actually stable.
It's been pretty stable for me since the later alphas when I switched. The only real hiccups I've noticed have been with keyboard only navigation in a few areas, mouse has always worked well. I'd guess that A11y is also less than ideal as well, so if you're reliant on a screen reader or the like, best to wait quite a while longer until iced etc. catch up.
I've done more than a handful of major version updates since then, and almost don't bother to backup any more.
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